Relationships, public service define Bonniwell
Nancy Bonniwell is dedicated to serving her clients, colleagues and community. A main factor in her success as partner at Weiss Berzowski Brady LLP, where she practices estate planning and business law, is her ability to build relationships with clients and understand their motivations.
All the world’s a stage for Eastern District’s Pepper
Pamela Pepper grew up in the middle of nowhere — the cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta to be exact.
Gonzalez Knavel shows true grit in practice, retirement
Maria Gonzalez Knavel remains as determined in retirement as she was when working as a partner for Foley & Lardner.
Heidt the cream of the crop
Martha Heidt stumbled upon a book — and a new career. As a struggling dairy farmer in the late 1980s near Eau Claire, she came across a book on agricultural law while cleaning a barn basement.
Bowen discovers the virtues of being ‘bossy’
After practicing law for more than 10 years, Freya Bowen knows of a little advice she would love to have received in her first year.
Coffee appreciates impact of her work
Rebecca Coffee always knew she would work in the law. She just wasn’t sure she’d be a lawyer. But after working as a paralegal, she was convinced.
Weston teaches law, even while running tech company
Cheryl Weston wants to help her students to think as deeply about the law as she does. That means they should be able to recognize the intersection of substance and procedure, to understand rules and use them tactically. “If they learn the tools of being a good litigator, they always can pick up the substance […]
Fleming gives back to community, family through clients
Miriam Fleming almost became a chef. Starting in seventh or eighth grade, she started working for chef Ferdinand Metz at H.J. Heinz Co.
Sheeran blazes law trail for women
When Susan Sheeran began working as an attorney focused on construction, labor and employment laws, she often found herself the only woman in the room.
Kreiter gives her all, has it all
Women really can have it all. Just ask Maria Kreiter.
McMahon fights for her clients by getting personal
Maura McMahon wants to know every client’s story. Throughout the past 12 years in the State Public Defender’s Waukesha office, she has advocated for women, children and the mentally ill, but the often-troubling details of those cases have done little to dim her bright outlook.
Tomczyk gets concrete results from often invisible efforts
Debby Tomczyk balances the tangible and intangible in her practice. A shareholder at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, Tomczyk specializes in business law and real estate, which she says provides here with an uncommon means of tracking her own success.
Legal News
- State Bar leaders remain deeply divided over special purpose trust
- Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
- Pecker says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race
- A conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum in states
- Wisconsin prison inmate pleads not guilty to killing cellmate
- Waukesha man sentenced to 30 years for Sex Trafficking
- 12-year-old shot in Milwaukee Wednesday with ‘serious injuries’
- Milwaukee man convicted of laundering proceeds of business email compromise fraud schemes
- Giuliani, Meadows among 18 indicted in Arizona fake electors case
- Some State Bar diversity participants walk away from program
- Wisconsin court issues arrest warrant ‘in error’ for Minocqua Brewing owner
- Iranian nationals charged cyber campaign targeting U.S. Companies
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